Peter Sellers constantly reinvented himself.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

I don’t even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace...

I am riding for Legacy ATV and I have quite a few new sponsors this year.

Disney’s something to be a little alarmed about. It’s not just a little theme park anymore. It’s now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.

Everything’s plastic, we’re all gonna die.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The way you write science fiction is: you sit down at your writing machine and you open your mind to the first thought that comes through.

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don’t.

My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn’t matter, that there is some part of ourselves...

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

I must say also that it’s never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

In this Western point of view, evil and sin were negative qualities; they arose from the absence of good, not from the presence of evil.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an “ethic.”

And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I’m not stuck in a time warp, because I can use as many of the old songs as I want...

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

The Law of the Sea Treaty created a supranational organization to regulate what is done with and under the international seabeds.

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Your book catches on like any other new product and once it does you are there and how you behave when you get there is up to you.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Many people think my movies come out of the deepest feelings of bitterness and cynicism and hostility and not out of any positive feelings at all.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.

I guess you could say I’ve been writing all my life.

It’s often been said that I’m an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I’ve never known what to make of that.

The supply of money in a single country was subject to no centralized, responsible control in most countries over recent centuries.

Personally, I can’t see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

There’s some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang him.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

It’s clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.